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A marriage was among the collateral damage from an area scam ring accused of bilking $400,000 out of victims across three counties since 2011.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Tuesday released the name of the suspected mastermind of a scam ring that saw five of the suspected participants arraigned Monday in Ross County.

Charles E. Kuhn Jr., 47, of Circleville, is accused of initiating a scam with a person he knew who then went on to ask friends of family to also help out Kuhn, DeWine said. He is accused of initially asking for help to pay legal fees on a fictional Ohio Bureau of Workers' ...